‘The warming trend nearly doubled after 2014’: The rate of global warming has accelerated more in the past decade than ever before
A new analysis finds that global warming has significantly accelerated since 2015, but not everyone agrees.
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Anthropic collides with the Pentagon over AI safety — here’s everything you need to know
As Anthropic releases its most autonomous agents yet, a mounting clash with the military reveals the impossible choice between global scaling and a “safety first”
Why is mercury a liquid?
Mercury is a metal, yet it has some weird physical properties, including being a liquid at room temperature.
‘City killer’ asteroid will narrowly miss the moon, James Webb Telescope reveals
The “city killer” asteroid 2024 YR4 won’t hit Earth or the moon when it whizzes by in 2032, the latest James Webb Space Telescope observations
Climate disasters caused societal upheaval 3,000 years ago in China, study of ‘oracle bones’ hints
Some civilizations in inland China underwent dramatic changes and population drops 3,000 years ago. Now, researchers are using oracle bones, archaeological evidence and climate modeling
One of the most accurate smart scales we have tested is now at its lowest-ever price
Save 19% on the Renpho MorphoScan Nova smart scale at Amazon — but hurry, this flash deal ends tonight.
Scientists find 2 marsupial species, thought to have gone extinct 6,000 years ago, living in the forests of New Guinea
The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, two marsupials believed to have died out thousands of years ago, are still alive in Papuan Indonesia.
‘Striking’ footage captures the moment a red fox preys on a wolf pup — a behavior never seen on film before
Scientists in Italy captured a red fox entering a den as part of a project to understand wolf population dynamics in the country.
How a handful of koalas are changing scientists understanding of genetic risk
It’s long been assumed that koalas in southern Australia are genetically unhealthy. A new study finds they’re actually recovering, changing how scientists look at genetic
NASA’s DART spacecraft changed an asteroid’s orbit around the sun
A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around the sun also changed.
The remarkable brains of ‘SuperAgers’ hold clues about how we age
A new study reports signs that nerve cells in the brain keep dividing over the decades. It’s not so simple.
‘Cikai Korran came here and saw’: Visitors from India graffitied dozens of Egyptian tombs 2,000 years ago
Ancient inscriptions written in Indian languages have been discovered on Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
Ancient ‘alien-like’ skulls have been found on every continent but Antarctica. Anthropologists are starting to figure out why.
Humans have practiced head shaping for tens of thousands of years, and anthropologists are beginning to uncover clues as to why.
Planting trees in the sea could act as a huge carbon sink and save millions of dollars in storm damage every year. What is stopping us from doing it?
A new study reveals restoring mangroves could save $800 million in storm damage, protect 140,000 people from flooding, and remove almost triple the amount of